How to Obtain Michigan Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
This page provides information on obtaining copies of Michigan
birth certificates, Michigan marriage licenses, Michigan divorce
decrees and Michigan death records. There are also useful
links to past Michigan Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
Michigan birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Vital Records Request
P.O. Box 30721
Lansing, MI 48909
Michigan birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The Michigan Dept of Community Health may be contacted
by phone on (517) 335-8656. or online at http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/pha/osr/index.asp
Remarks:
State office has records of births and deaths that occurred
and were filed with the state since 1867. Some of the records
(especially pre-1906 births and pre-1897 deaths) were not
filed with the state
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Other Michigan Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain Michigan vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
NewspaperObituaries.net - Michigan a
directory of thousands of obituaries with a page of
obituary indexes for each Michigan county
World's Largest Newspaper Archive
instantly search 12 million newspaper pages of birth, marriage, death and obituary announcements etc. from 1690 - today
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Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death Records Online - Instant Results over 1 Billion records Michigan Birth Records free online birth indexes for Michigan
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Michigan Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Michigan indexed in
county order
USGenweb
Archives Project - Michigan USGenWeb is an archive of
free databases including vital and other records such as
marriages, church records, wills,censuses and cemetery records.
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